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[[Fire Forged Friends|Battle isn't the only way to make friends]]. Sometimes, you don't need an instrument of destruction to get someone on your side -- you just need an instrument.

[[Fire-Forged Friends|Battle isn't the only way to make friends]]. Sometimes, you don't need an instrument of destruction to get someone on your side -- you just need an instrument.

[[Duet Bonding]] happens any time a pair of people become a little closer because they play music together. This can lead to a new [[Love Interest]], or just help them get to know each other a bit better. The piano is the most often used instrument, probably because the pair needs to sit close together to play.

A sub-trope of [[Let's Duet]]. See also [[Love At First Note]].

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* In ''[[The Holiday]]'' Iris and Miles bond over composing "Arthur's theme" on a piano together.

* ''Once'' practically revolves around the romantic bond formed through playing music together.

* In ''[[Electric Dreams]]'', Madeline is rehearsing her cello when the [[Instant AI Just Add Water]] in the next room begins duetting with her through the air vent. She thinks it's the human who lives in the apartment, and ''they'' begin a relationship.

* In ''[[Electric Dreams]]'', Madeline is rehearsing her cello when the [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]] in the next room begins duetting with her through the air vent. She thinks it's the human who lives in the apartment, and ''they'' begin a relationship.

* The river scene in ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' where Kira is singing and Jen is playing the flute. Jen also bonds with the podlings by joining in with their jig.

* Basically the premise of ''[[Music and Lyrics]]'' (only actually writing the song, not just performing it together.)

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== Literature ==

* Happens in the first ''[[Thursday Next]]'' book, ''The Eyre Affair''. The protagonist and another man play a literal piano duet, both playing the same piano at the same time but different parts of the piece. Not a straight-up example, because the two had been lovers in the past, but they weren't together at the time.

* ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' has the title characters do this quite often. Aubrey plays violin; Maturin plays cello. And, uh, [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]?:

* ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' has the title characters do this quite often. Aubrey plays violin; Maturin plays cello. And, uh, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?:

{{quote| [H]e was particularly attentive in laying out the sheets, pouring Stephen another glass of wine, and, when they began, in so playing that his violin helped the 'cello, yielding to it in those minute ways perceptive to those who are deep in their music if to few others.[... T]hey carried straight on without a pause, separating, joining, answering one another, with never a hesitation nor a false note until the full satisfaction of the end.}}

* In Victorian era fantasy novel [[Darkness Visible]], [[Blue Blood|Lewis]] plays the piano, and [[Tall Dark and Handsome|Marsh]] the violin. Both are experts, and the first time Lewis offers to play a duet with Marsh it is a clear sign that their [[Fire Forged Friends|relationship has changed]]. They go on to play together many times, using the music as a much-needed emotional release when neither of them can express themselves in words.

* In Victorian era fantasy novel [[Darkness Visible]], [[Blue Blood|Lewis]] plays the piano, and [[Tall, Dark and Handsome|Marsh]] the violin. Both are experts, and the first time Lewis offers to play a duet with Marsh it is a clear sign that their [[Fire-Forged Friends|relationship has changed]]. They go on to play together many times, using the music as a much-needed emotional release when neither of them can express themselves in words.

* In [[Hermann Hesse (Creator)|Hermann Hesse]]'s ''[[The Glass Bead Game (Literature)|The Glass Bead Game]]'', when the protagonist Josef Knecht is still a young boy, the Music Master himself comes to examine if he's eligible to be educated in the elite schools. He does it by making the young Josef play music together with him. Thereafter they practically make a baroque-style version of what jazz musicians usually call "jam session", using a popular song as the basic theme. After this, the Music Master explicitly tells to Josef that making music together is the easiest way to create a friendship.

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*** Blaine does it again, this time with Kurt - their rampant flirtation solidifies with "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and "Candles", which takes place right after their [[Relationship Upgrade]], is an entire song of them staring dopily and dreamily into each others' eyes like they can't believe they've just found each other.

*** Blaine even [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on the Candles duet; right before the [[Big Damn Kiss]] he flat out tells Kurt that the duet would be an excuse to spend more time with him.

* It happens on ''[[Victorious]]'' a few times, mainly with Tori and Andre.

* Happens on several occasions in ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'':